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I do yoga, photographing people in the desert mountains, I hike extensively, thinking about new poems. This is somebody who is passionate, who can sustain a line of thought for three or four days, but not more, who is passionate based on feelings more than on intellect, who can be kinda' girlish at times, but can also be harsh and sharp, though most of the time smooth and mellow, but not caramel, it sticks to the teeth! who has some spiritual inclinations, but cannot be too serious about them, who is usually quite light-hearted, and likes to look at the world in strange ways, who is very confident, verging on arrogance, but at the same time, seems to still have an heart, and be able to feel empathy with others, even though this empathy remains at an abstract level, and does not seem to translate into daily activities, who has rather an obsessive mind, and maybe, should get a real life instead of writing so much! This is ME, one and many, and yet truthfully true, always... So... what are you staring at?

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My journal was saravana from November 2003 to December 2004, mainly because my number of posts here was 888, and I wanted it to stay that way for a while (lucky number!).

Notes and warnings:

1) I have an ideal of LJ as an open place, meaning I try to write as publicly as possible and express my real feelings, being as truthful as I can. I must admit I often fail, and don't say all I want to say, mostly out of fear it isn't really what I will think later or out of fear it will be read the wrong way.

However, there are a quantity of things I write that don't really reflect what I think, either because I am too lazy to express myself clearly, or because most people who read me instinctively know what I mean. If you are offended by one of my entries, then that means you don't know me well enough, or you are stupid.

2) I am a bit of a passeist and it seems to me that LJ has lost some of its interactivity of the early days. This is probably because those LJ friends I have had for years I know so well and am so confident in their friendship that I don't feel the need to poke them all the time. This is probably also because everyone takes themselves more and more seriously as they become better and better at writing. Everything becomes quite desincarnate and there is not much to exchange anymore.

3) I am becoming tired of communities and the spontaneous aggressivity of people there. Most of them have turned into private turfs, eagerly protected by long timers. I venture in some from time to time, but I don't follow any anymore.

4) I don't list as friends people who: have very few entries, have uninteresting entries, have an horrible LJ, post huge photos, mess up my friends page, have friends I don't like, have too many friends, never comment, reply evasively or not at all when I comment on their entries, are arrogant or aggressive, keep on annoying me with their comments, etc...

5) I list as friends those people with well written journals displaying sensitivity, education and intelligence.

6) I try not to talk about politics or current events here, not because I am not interested, but because this is not what this LJ is about, or at least, this is not what my crowd is into. I have got other places to go into that shit, with other people who are into that. But you won't find it here, except through brief allusions.

7) I am no good at making very intellectual comments/witty remarks/self-referential notes/private jokes. I like long, explicit and unambiguous comments. There is nothing I dislike more than comments I don't understand, or that merely consist in saying "Hey, I was there!". I don't like ambiguous comments, that really pisses me off. So, think how your comment could be interpreted. If you don't know how to do that and are bad at written communication, then please get out, quick.

8) I actually am very pissy when it comes to remarks that are made about me or my positions or whatever else. I have been known to lash out at people for no obvious reason, or just because I didn't interpret their comment with the "right" angle. I am easily annoyed and I lack patience, but I try to be more diplomatic and thick-skinned. I always regret sniping back at people, but I guess I do have dog genes and I love barking for no reason.

9) I hate drama, so don't comment negatively on my entries and don't link to them unless it is to praise me. Well, OK, those who know me know I am a drama major, so saying I hate drama is a bit of an overshoot. Let’s be more precise: I love drama as long as it is me who stirs things up. But you won’t get drama from me: I deal swiftly and efficiently with those who annoy me.

10) Eh, but all that said I really like getting comments!, else, what is the point of keeping an online journal?

11) If you are listed as a friend and you don't have access to one of my entries, that is because it is private. I am a very private person, in fact, but my mood on those matters fluctuates. I can make very intimate public entries, and then regret it the day after and switch them to private.

12) I don't segregate between LJ friends by setting up filters. I rarely update "friends-only" nowadays. Either it is for public consumption or for me only. Entries of a "general" interest will be public, intimate entries without specifics such as time, place or persons will be "friends-only", boring entries or entries I don't feel like formatting and expanding on will be private. "Boring" is defined as talking about other people or projects that most people here don't know about anyway; it takes too much time to explain the context, and with no context, they lose their meaning. Malformed thoughts I am too lazy to express clearly and justify are private too. I also try to keep ugly thoughts and stupid rants private, albeit not always succesfully...

13) I won't comment on your entries if you turn IP logging on. Call it paranoia, or simply the fact I value privacy. Now, you may have your own reason for turning IP logging on, and I totally respect that. But then I won't comment on your entries, that is all. No big loss. I don't comment a lot.

Turning IP logging off: Go here.

14) I won't be able to read your entry if you use the <small> tag or any other artifice resulting in shrinking your font. If you like small fonts like I do, do like me and tweak around with the font size in your journal. But let others choose what font size they like reading with, instead of imposing it on them entry by entry.

Changing font size: Go here for the S1 style system. I don't know anything about the S2 style system, but I am sure it is even easier to do that with that system.

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